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"Father, why are you here?"
Yu Xiaowei knelt on the ground, pulled on his own ears with both hands, and asked seriously.
"A fifteen-thousand-year-old red-gold tiger."
"My dear son, you are very brave."
Yu Luomian sat comfortably on the sofa, holding an iron rod in his hand, lightly tapping it against his palm from time to time.
"Let me explain."
"Haha, what did you say last time? The Yu family would never lie to the Yu family?"
Yu Luomian straightened up, held the iron rod, and walked toward Yu Xiaowei with a malicious look.
"Go ahead and hit me. It's only my body that will hurt."
Facing the rod swinging through the air, Yu Xiaowei straightened his back with an indifferent expression on his face.
Sure enough, Yu Luomian held the rod for a long time but couldn't bring himself to swing it.
At a dead end, he could only sigh helplessly and grumble in a bad mood.
"Get up!"
"Hehe."
Yu Xiaowei immediately stood up and ran behind Yu Luomian to massage his shoulders.
Since he was a child, Yu Xiaowei always coaxed him like this whenever he made him angry.
And it always worked.
Yu Luomian sat back on the sofa, leaned comfortably, enjoyed his son's massage, and then asked with a smile.
"Why are you here?"
"Don't tell me you came here just to hunt a spirit ring."
"Sigh, I get mad just talking about it. If your eldest brother hadn't sent word, I wouldn't even know that you, this brat, dared to do such a thing."
Seeing Yu Luomian getting angry again, Yu Xiaowei shrank his neck and explained awkwardly.
"It was an accident."
"I didn't expect to suddenly reach level 40."
Yu Luomian raised his eyebrows and asked in confusion.
"Then why are you here?"
"Someone is trying to pursue my sister, and I have to stop him."
Since Liu Erlong wasn't around, and there was no need to hide it from his father, Yu Xiaowei told the truth.
"That loser?"
"Yes."
"Hmph, he's still trying to seduce your sister. If I hadn't left immediately back then, that loser would've succeeded."
Yu Luomian's good mood instantly vanished at the mention of Yu Xiaogang.
Back then, the youngest son of the eldest brother awakened a pig-like martial spirit, with only half a level of innate soul power.
This delighted the second branch and other side branches who had been eyeing the family head position.
Although Yu Yuanzhen and Yu Luomian did their best to suppress the sarcastic voices in the clan, it was, after all, a large family of nearly 2,000 people, and rumors still spread.
As Yu Yuanzhen's youngest son, Yu Xiaogang was deeply loved by him. He had tried every possible way, even using his own cultivation resources, to see if the pig-like martial spirit could evolve.
Yu Luomian also feared that Xiaogang would feel inferior because of his martial spirit, so he would take him out to play every day and tried his best to care for and protect him.
Coincidentally, Yu Luomian's eldest son had just passed away at the time. In his heart, Yu Xiaogang was like his own son.
But as Yu Xiaogang grew up, the rumors within the family affected him more and more.
He gradually became depressed, spending all his time in the family library, often staying there for several days straight.
Especially with the unreserved support of Yu Yuanzhen's resources, this child with only half-level innate soul power managed to obtain a second ring by the age of 20.
This further fueled jealousy in the family.
Rumors like "Yu Yuanzhen gave the family's best resources to a pig" became more and more common.
Eventually, when Yu Xiaogang was 21, he ran away from home.
Yu Yuanzhen was heartbroken for a long time, and Yu Luomian was also deeply depressed, but since it was his own choice, there wasn't much they could say. The only thing they could do was assign someone to protect him secretly.
But to their surprise, Yu Xiaogang actually joined Spirit Hall after two years of wandering.
However, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan couldn't enter Spirit Hall, and information about Yu Xiaogang was completely cut off.
They didn't even know what someone like Yu Xiaogang, who was essentially a third-class cripple, could do there.
The only thing they learned was that every time Spirit Hall sent people to awaken civilian spirits, he would be among them.
Only later did an article surface, signed by a certain "Master," titled The Ten Core Competitiveness of Martial Spirits.
The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan was shocked and furious to find that nearly half of the evidence and theories in this article were identical to their family's heritage.
This major leak of family secrets enraged Yu Yuanzhen.
But when the spy returned and reported that this "Master" was Yu Xiaogang...
Yu Yuanzhen fell silent.
The entire Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan was in an uproar.
Calls to expel the traitor Yu Xiaogang echoed through every corner of the family's domain.
When Yu Luomian heard the news, he felt like he had become the sinner of the clan—because he was the one who agreed to let Yu Xiaogang into the family library.
Since then, the way he referred to Yu Xiaogang changed from "good nephew" to "that trash."
Later, under family pressure, Yu Yuanzhen announced that Yu Xiaogang would be expelled from the family and his name removed from the family register.
Yu Luomian thought this was the end, and that he and Yu Xiaogang would never cross paths again in this lifetime.
But when spies later reported that Yu Xiaogang, Liu Erlong, and Flender had formed the Golden Triangle and created a series of martial soul fusion skills...
Yu Luomian felt like he was about to suffer a heart attack.
But he endured it. After all, Yu Xiaogang was half like a son to him. Though angry, he didn't plan to forcibly separate the three.
He even secretly felt happy for Yu Yuanzhen—this useless person had finally found a way to use his talents, so his elder brother didn't need to worry as much.
Until one day, the spies brought back new information:
Yu Xiaogang was going to marry Liu Erlong.
At that moment, Yu Luomian even wanted to kill Yu Xiaogang.
He had brought disgrace to the family and now was bringing disgrace to his own daughter.
At the same time, he couldn't understand why his proud and arrogant daughter fell for such trash.
So he traveled day and night, thousands of miles, to reach Yu Xiaogang and Liu Erlong's wedding site, and saw with his own eyes the two of them drinking their wedding wine.
Yu Luomian was so enraged that he destroyed the wedding venue on the spot.
After Yu Xiaogang fled, he and Liu Erlong argued, and it was the first time he slapped his daughter.
But he never expected that Liu Erlong was so obsessed with Yu Xiaogang that she would even sever ties with him and publicly announce that she was breaking off their father-daughter relationship.
To this day, after all these years, apart from sending Yu Xiaowei to college, Liu Erlong hasn't spoken a single word to him.
Yu Xiaowei had been influenced by Yu Luomian since childhood, and after carefully reading the original novel, he understood Yu Xiaogang's character.
Therefore, he had the same attitude toward Yu Xiaogang.
Hoo—
Hoo—
Yu Luomian took several deep breaths, and after calming down, he patted Yu Xiaowei on the shoulder and said:
"As an elder, I can't do anything about that loser."
"And as for your sister, I can't help her resolve this. She's over 40 now—she can't go on like this."
"So, son, this time it's up to you. No matter what method you use, you must get that loser away from your sister."
"And one more thing. Your uncle treated you well, so go easy on his son."
"Break both his legs, but leave the third one intact."
No one knows a son better than his father. Yu Xiaowei understood Yu Luomian's intentions. He patted his chest and grinned mischievously.
"Leave it to me."
"Father, I'm not afraid to say—I actually have a bold idea for this matter."
"If it works, my sister will definitely leave Yu Xiaogang."